Ravel’s Le tombeau de Couperin in Building a Library with Flora Willson and Andrew McGregor
Flora Willson chooses her favourite recording of the piano version of Ravel’s Le tombeau de Couperin in Building a Library, and Roger Parker shares some remarkable new releases.
Andrew McGregor with the best new recordings of classical music.
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Building a Library: Flora Willson chooses her favourite recording of the piano version of Ravel’s Le tombeau de Couperin.
Ravel composed between Le tombeau de Couperin in 1914 and 1917. It’s in six movements, based on those of a traditional Baroque suite. Each movement is dedicated to the memory of a friend who had died fighting in World War I.
Recommended version:
Javier Perianes (piano)
Harmonia Mundi HMM902326
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Charles Gounod
Danse espagnole (Le Tribut de Zamora)
Orchestra: Orchestre Symphonique de la Garde Républicaine. Conductor: Hervé Niquet.- Chateau de Versailles.
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Ludwig van Beethoven
String Quartet in F Major, Op. 18 No. 1 iv) Allegro
Ensemble: Doric String Quartet.- Beethoven: String Quartets, Vol. 1.
- Chandos.
- 104.
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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Come scoglio (Così fan tutte, K.588)
Performer: Pierre Génisson. Music Arranger: Bruno Fontaine. Ensemble: Concerto Köln. Conductor: Jakob Lehmann.- Erato.
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Cassandra Miller
The City, Full of People
Choir: Chamber Choir Ireland. Conductor: Paul Hillier.- Louth Contemporary Music.
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Francis Poulenc
Cello Sonata, FP 143 i) Allegro
Performer: Bruno Philippe. Performer: Tanguy de Williencourt.- Saint-Saëns: Cello Concerto No. 1 - Franck, Fauré & Poulenc.
- harmonia mundi.
- 110.
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Robert Schumann
Dichterliebe, Op. 48
Performer: Neal Peres Da Costa. Singer: Koen van Stade.- Deux-Elles.
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George Frideric Handel
Messiah, HWV 56
Singer: Lucy Crowe. Singer: Alex Potter. Singer: Michael Spyres. Singer: Matthew Brook. Orchestra: The English Concert. Choir: English Concert Choir. Conductor: John Nelson.- Erato.
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Johann Sebastian Bach
Sonata in G major BWV 1027 a Viola da Gamba et Cembalo Obligato i) Adagio
Performer: Andrea De Carlo.- Fineline Classics.
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Frederick Delius
A Mass of Life v) Andante molto tranquillo
Singer: Roderick Williams. Orchestra: Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Mark Elder.- Lawo.
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Dermot MacMurrough
Macushla
Performer: John McCormack. Lyricist: Josephine V. Rowe.- Come Back To Erin.
- Pegasus Entertainment.
- 4.
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Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Piano Concerto No. 1 in B-Flat Minor, Op. 23 i) Allegro non troppo e molto maestoso
Performer: Martha Argerich. Orchestra: Berliner Philharmoniker. Conductor: Claudio Abbado.- Tchaikovsky: Piano Concerto No. 1; The Nutcracker Suite.
- Deutsche Grammophon (DG).
- 1.
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Johann Gottlieb Goldberg
Trio Sonata in C Major iv) Gigue Presto
Ensemble: Ensemble Diderot. Conductor: Johannes Pramsohler.- J.G. Goldberg & W.F. Bach: Trio Sonatas.
- Audax Records.
- 104.
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Max Reger
Requiem, op. 144b
Singer: Anke Vondung. Choir: Chorus Musicus Köln. Orchestra: Das Neue Orchester. Conductor: Christoph Spering.- Reger: Requiem · Mahler: Orchestral Songs.
- CapriccioNR.
- 103.
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Franz Schubert
Die Schöne Müllerin, D. 795
Music Arranger: Thomas Guthrie. Ensemble: Barokksolistene. Singer: Thomas Guthrie.- Rubicon.
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Robert Schumann
Piano Quartet in E flat major, Op. 47 iii) Andante cantabile
Performer: Isabelle Faust. Performer: Antoine Tamestit. Performer: Jean‐Guihen Queyras. Performer: Alexander Melnikov.- Harmonia Mundi.
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Giacomo Puccini
Tosca
Singer: Melody Moore. Singer: Colin Judson. Singer: Lester Lynch. Orchestra: Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin. Conductor: Carlo Montanaro.- Pentatone.
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